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Toddler drowns in home rooftop pool
View(s):An 18-month-old child died a week after he was rescued from the roof-top swimming pool of his house in Wellampitiya and admitted to the Lady Ridgeway Hospital, a coroner’s court inquiry was told. Abdul Jaufer, the 40-year-old father of the child, said his son had gone to the rooftop on his own and had fallen into the swimming pool.
He said that one of his friends who went to the pool area found the child floating face down on an inflated tube and choking on water. The child was rushed to the Lady Ridgeway Hospital where he passed away on Friday morning.